Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 37
“In my youth,” Father William replied to his son, “I feared it might injure the brain; But, now that I’m perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.”
Who acts: Father, youth · What happens: reply, fear, injure, be, have, do · To what, where: youth, brain, none · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, youth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 youth | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 youth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 youth | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 youth | punct |
| 7 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Father | flat |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 son | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feared | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 feared | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 feared | nsubj |
| 16 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 injure | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 injure | aux |
| 19 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 feared | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 brain | det |
| 21 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 injure | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 ’m | punct |
| 23 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 ’m | cc |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 But | punct |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 ’m | advmod |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 ’m | mark |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 ’m | nsubj |
| 28 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 29 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 30 sure | advmod |
| 30 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 ’m | xcomp |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 have | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 sure | ccomp |
| 33 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 32 have | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Why | punct |
| 35 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 none | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 do | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 do | nsubj |
| 38 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 do | obj |
| 40 | again | again | ADV | _ | 38 do | advmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 again | cc |
| 42 | again | again | ADV | _ | 40 again | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Father | my youth | to Father's son | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to son=Theme | |||
| 2 | fear in a quote | past | Father | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | injure in a quote | might | youth | the brain | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | Father | now | sure property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | Father | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | present | Father | brain | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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